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Paragraphs: 38
Charles Wehrenberg and Neeli Cherkovski, 1988. Kissling Street, San Francisco. Photo: Sally Larsen.
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You are where you live
just as you are what you eat
Becoming your street
Artists
Challenging beauty
with the fine art of being
Only poetry
Passing
Earthly enchantments
Leaves of Grass to save your ass
Sweetness of flowers
Backyard Bard
Lisbon Lemon tree
a glorious poet indeed!
Born green...ripening
Moonshine
Seventy seven
a lifetime of blue light nights
One thousand full Moons
Fifty years
Neeli Cherkovski
thoughtful friends hard to come by
A favorite beach
Penumbra
The lucky die young
others left to close the door
Ask any mushroom
Giving back
Life, ten million breaths
inhaling...exhaling each
At times a poem
Knock Knock
Hello! anyone home?
limbo...is this Heaven’s door?
Old Mortality
Buzz
Bernal dog walkers
beatnik poet in the news
The empty porch chair
Magritte
Those white wings, block dots
on dandelion yellow
Poet butterfly
Ghosts
Round porch table waits
empty chair forever quiet
Barking at shadows
Charles Wehrenberg is a biochemist, writer and art collector who lives in San Francisco. He is the author of five books, including Mississippi Blue (Twin Palms, 2002).